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Just thought I'd respond to that edit you made in my sandbox a while back -- the authors are the local NWS offices because most, if not all, of the summaries provided are by the WFOs; so is the information. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 02:53, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

That is about the equivalent of me giving you information to write a book. Although I gave you the info, you still wrote the book and are the author. Although the NWS may give the NCDC information, NCDC still compiles everything and (although I'm not sure) possibly does their own research. Since the NCDC does not list an author, there should be no author listed in WP references. United States Man (talk) 04:24, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

More like the equivalent of me writing a book and it being published on Google as an eBook. Sure, it's published there (Google; NCDC) but the information still came from the author (me; local WFOs). TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 04:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

I have given my reasoning. If you choose to disregard that, perhaps bring it up with the rest of the project or with Cyclonebiskit seeing that he enacted the change. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 22:51, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Have a read of this and see if it answers your query.Jason Rees (talk) 23:22, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

To solve your other little problem - tell me (here or on the IRC Channel #wiki-hurricanes) how you would cite this advisory archive up assuming it was permanent.

Re:Units

Well, "long" is quite subjective. Does "miles per hour" seem long to you? To me, it does, but you do realize that the MOS says usually, not that it has to be spelled out. It's never been an issue at FAC in my 6 years here YE ^{Pacific Hurricane} 05:31, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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If you wanna go for Admin then id suggest that you really be sure, that you want go for it rather than doing it on a whim for example. I say this since as TAMs RFA proved the whole process can be very brutal - especially if you are under 18, like i think you maybe. Also think about what you would like to do with the mop as its known and maybe get some decent expierence in getting things to GA inside and outside of the Met projects. Also you should try and build your relationships with other editors up slightly maybe including by poping in to the wiki-hurricanes irc room once in a while, where you will find people like myself and Hink at times.Jason Rees (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: adminship

Hey there! I think it's great that you want to become an admin, and I'm a bit honored you came to me for some advice. You've been here long enough that it wouldn't seem like you're rushing, which is good, and you've had over 12,000 edits, which shows you're going to stick around. It seems like over the past month, you've become more active in AFD, which is encouraging. If you keep that up, you'll have an admin activity you can show you'll do.

I do see some edit summaries that could be potentially controversial, and would love if you could explain them further.

• [1] - for this edit, you never contacted SharkGuy05 either on the talk page or on the user talk page. Communication is a key facet of being an administrator. Comments like "for some reason you think your version is always the best" aren't helpful in an edit summary. If it is a recurring trend for the other user, then your job as a prospective admin would be to open a dialogue. What's worse is that you seem to have gotten into a bit of an edit war with this user, still without any attempt at a discussion outside of the edit summaries. This is worrisome as it only happened two weeks ago.
• [2] - on the other hand, you did reach out to TAWX14 for these series of edits/reverts
• [3] - did anything further come of this? A final warning is pretty severe
• This is another example of some admin activities that you might want to mention. Although it was ultimately proven false, you were diplomatic in your apology, and your research was diligent.

I didn't look through your entire editing history (I wouldn't be able to reply for a few days if that was the case!), but it seems in general you could have a path to adminship. My biggest recommendation is toning down edit summaries and communicating with other users more. Don't forget, reverts between two users affects the entire project that the article is in, and if you bring it up on the talk page, other users might want to chime in on the debate. When in doubt, bring it up on the talk page of the article instead of between the two users. This next one might sound like an unusual request, but take it with a grain of salt - if there are any users that you find just really grinds your gears, just reach out to them and collaborating more! I find that when two people are really intensely debating on an article (Via edit summary or talk page), it just means that the two people are really passionate about the article, which is a good thing for Wikipedia. And if that could just be turned from semi-animosity into a working collaboration, so much more gets done. I've done that a few times in the hurricane project - I may get into some heated debates with some people, but those are the same people who I'd love working with on an article to get stuff done.

In general, I wouldn't go for RFA particularly soon. I really feel that first one could be disqualifying for most people, as silly as it may seem, but that's how RFA is nowadays. Oh, and another thing - try taking on more of a leadership role. Initiate discussions and follow through with them. I'm not sure if this is a prerequisite for RFA, but it certainly helped when I got the tools. People that do good things are likely to be rewarded, so keep that in mind. Good luck with editing, and let me know if you have any questions! :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:08, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, glad you came around on this :P --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Glad to review! Btw, have you considered coming on the WPTC IRC channel? Even though obstensibly it's for hurricanes, we talk about weather in general, and many editors are on there who also edit other projects. I find it great to talk to people instantaneously. Not even for making offline decisions (which we never do), but it's a great way to foster wiki relationships, and a reminder that the person on the other end is a human. Come on by next time you're bored. I honestly think that's a primary factor why the WPTC is one of the most successful projects on wiki. Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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Format correction at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boland (baseball)

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Any word yet on that weather record table for the 2014 cold wave page? If the articles end up being merged, it may become close to necessary rather than simply a good idea. If the sheer number of U.S. records alone are an issue, I can tackle those for you. (And btw, I agree completely with you about Facebook.) - Tenebris 22:18, 28 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.91.170.20 (talk)

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Tornado report 12/02/14

Hey man! Just to say that we had a tornado report by nws. But it was confirmed as strong winds. You changed the article to another one that said the same thing but without any references. That is why I questioned your changes.

Anyway, I changed again saying it was a report (which it really was) but later was ruled out as strong winds. I`ve add another reference as well.

Just to be fair here, if you change anything please add the reference or something. Just saying "no tornado" really appeared as vandalism to me, but I was wrong about that.

Peace man and keep up the good job!!

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And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

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Hi USM, I noticed earlier that the NCDC storm events database has been updated to include December 2013. As a result i was wondering if you could go through it and see if the 2013/2014 cold waves were seperate events or not. I would do it but im not sure what im looking for :) Regards.Jason Rees (talk) 03:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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The tables have to be in a single table and include the dates per the MOS of tables. It has to be in one table for text readers for visually impaired persons. Splitting it into separate tables screws up the bot. Would have been nice to drop me a message to inform me that there were going to be further changes to the table though. I highly disagree with adding another column as damage is easy to just put in the summary. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 19:43, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

"Unconstructive"? Not true

Myself and others have been listing the next week's race on the 2014 Nascar Sprint page for several months now, and there has never been any objection to it. It's not "unconstructive" -- if it was unconstructive, someone would have objected to it months ago. And besides, even if I myself don't list the next race, someone else will just come along and do it anyway. Are you going to unneededly revert them as well? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

P.S. -- Not only did you delete the next race, but you also deleted the race from two days ago. I and others don't understand this. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

You say it looks tacky. First of all, I'm not the one who makes the race report, others do the report and they have done so for months. Second, it's been standard to list the next race -- if it was a problem, someone would have complained a long time ago, they wouldn't suddenly start complaining about it now all of a sudden out of nowhere. And third, you're the only one saying it looks "tacky", which just means that's your own personal opinion, not a statement of fact. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

For MONTHS now, not just a few weeks as you're trying to claim, the NEXT race had been listed on there by others and myself, and there was NEVER any objection to it. But hey, fine, I won't put it on there anymore, because I know there are more important things in life than having a petty argument with hard-headed people over the internet. But just keep something in mind -- when SOMEONE ELSE lists the next race on there and rightfully so (just as I have done), and then you revert them the same as you did with me, you will then have to go through all this again with them, trying to explain away your reasoning for reverting their perfectly good and constructive edit. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 21:10, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

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No EF5 damage in eastern Moore?

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Sorry for the caps on my edit summary, but I have been dealing with many different IP editors changing it to the next day, which is crystalballing. So yeah. No hard feelings. Dustin (talk) 18:24, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Also, on the "no sense" part, I kind of get what you are saying, but at the same time, couldn't it easily be fixed along with some other edit on something else? 1800z isn't very late to me, so I think that it is at least better to show only what is known, because in that situation, there are still six hours until the next day. Finally, you could easily change it back with the rest of the stuff, which is why I don't think this should be an issue. Personally, I think there should be some sort of edit notice for the page saying how to do the time updates. (An edit notice like the one you would get if editing my user page, for example) Thank you for supplying me with your reasoning, though. Dustin (talk) 18:47, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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When ZappaOMati reveals the box on the weekend for the pole winner, no one reverts it. I myself revealed it this time. So, I did the same thing he did, and yet it got reverted. Let's try to get along and not do things out of spite. Thanks. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 20:13, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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It is really frustrating when you don't look through my contributions to see how I was handling the situation. You didn't provide any actual webpage evidence, so I reverted you. I know you are also editing in good faith, but please don't take it too hard. See http://weather.gov: It appears that every warning from the National Weather Service is formally capitalized, with informal exceptions which do not occur with actual warnings. I would also suggest that you see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Severe weather#Title Capitalization for Watches and Warnings. Sorry if I was a rough in my edit summary towards you; I had to go through a very bad, not-so-well ending discussion following the earlier reverts. Thank you again, though. Please at least consider discussing this for awhile here or on he article talk page first; the change to caps occurred a long enough time ago that changing it back is what I believe should require a discussion. Please don't be mad or something; I am just trying to nicely suggest that we try to go over this for a bit at least. Regarding watches, although they do not occur here with the article in question, you can see the official watches from the Storm Prediction Center. Here is an example: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/2014/ww0351.html Thank you, and sorry again for my bad edit summary. Dustin (talk) 14:00, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

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